Towfique Raj — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Tenured Professor and Principal Investigator at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ph.D. in Genetics from Cambridge University, funded by the Gates-Cambridge Scholarship
Leads NIH-funded research on the molecular basis of neurodegeneration using multi-omics integration and AI/ML approaches
Made foundational contributions in identifying how non-neuronal cells contribute to genetic risk in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease
Recipient of the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA)

Biography

Towfique Raj, Ph.D., is a tenured Professor and Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Functional Genomics at the Ronald M.

Loeb Center for Alzheimer's Disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He holds joint appointments in the Departments of Neuroscience and Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and is a core member of both the Friedman Brain Institute and Icahn Genomics Institute. Dr.